World War One Through Arab Eyes

The Arabs (1x1)

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Arabs troops from North Africa were among the first to be exposed to the Germans' poisonous gas soon after the start of World War One. Some reports also suggest that they were subjected to the ancient Roman military practice of 'decimation'. This was the almost random execution of every tenth member of a unit for collective failures of army discipline - and the French are alleged to have used it against their North African troops. Galliopoli was one of the biggest Allied defeats of the war. But it is not well-known that as many as 300,000 of Mustafa Kamal's Ottoman forces in the campaign were Arabs from Greater Syria – present day Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Palestine. morale of the north Africa troops fighting for the western Allies.